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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. It is a victory Monday here on Talking Cowboys,
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Speaker 1: Star in Frisco and the SWBC Studios. The Cowboys get
Speaker 1: their fifth win of the twenty twenty two campaign, improved
Speaker 1: to five and two, as they take down the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions twenty four to six, the final score from AT
Speaker 1: and T Stadium. Alongside Patrick No, C Walker, Isaiah stand Back,
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's with Chris Beam. As always, gentlemen, it's
Speaker 1: another victory Monday, and it's oh so sweet when you
Speaker 1: can get a home win in the NFL. Right absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. Cowboys are sitting at five and two, bounce
Speaker 1: back nicely, especially defensively, coming off of a not a
Speaker 1: bad game against Philadelphia, but a little bit of a
Speaker 1: step back as far as the elite play that we've
Speaker 1: been seen from them on a week to week basis.
Speaker 1: Absolutely ted off on golf, pun intended, and that helped
Speaker 1: settle in Dak Prescott and the Cowboys offense in the
Speaker 1: second half. Totally loved he of a subtle I like,
Speaker 1: I'm here for absolutely love. Nance was on the call. Hell,
Speaker 1: yeah that's true. Yeah, the voice of the Masters or
Speaker 1: I guess not. Yeah, he does do the Masters, doesn't he.
Speaker 1: He does this a lot of stuff. Yeah, you're a
Speaker 1: big golf guy. Yeah, definitely not. Yeah. No, they got
Speaker 1: the dub. That's all that matters. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I personally didn't like how it happened, but
Speaker 1: I know we'll get into that. UM as the show
Speaker 1: goes on. Ultimately, all you automatters is that you walk
Speaker 1: away with a W. Doesn't matter how ugly, how pretty,
Speaker 1: how whatever it is. Um, you're your one win closer
Speaker 1: to you know. Actually you needed that win because because
Speaker 1: what the rest of the division did, So that was
Speaker 1: an important win as well. Everybody that played yesterday in
Speaker 1: the NFC East one, the only team that didn't win
Speaker 1: is already the only undefeated team in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: they were on a bye week, so I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you needed to win to keep pace. Uh and you did.
Speaker 1: So you were supposed to win this football game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we said it on Friday, everybody, he said it, you
Speaker 1: needed to win this football game. Sure, the Lions come
Speaker 1: in with a number three rated offense in the NFL,
Speaker 1: a top total offense in the league, and they put
Speaker 1: up some put up some numbers, and they've got some
Speaker 1: pieces defensively, but paper v paper, you're supposed to win
Speaker 1: this football game. Yeah, and ultimately you did. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: a credit to the to the Detroit Lions. And and
Speaker 1: we said this, you know, each week, and we said
Speaker 1: this going into this game. It's a scrappy bunch under
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell. It is this scrappy bunch and Cowboys fans,
Speaker 1: you got reminded of it in the first half, particularly
Speaker 1: with Aidan Hutchinson. Hey, Ayton, I'm sorry, I guess you.
Speaker 1: I guess you're tuned into talking Cowboys and hurt me
Speaker 1: said you wouldn't get a sack because he went out
Speaker 1: he got way to go freaking. But you know what,
Speaker 1: So what we're here for is bill bulletin board material.
Speaker 1: But Aidan Hutchinson, he won his battles more often than
Speaker 1: not against Tyler Smith in the past attack. But then
Speaker 1: you saw Dan Campbell move Hutchinson over to the opposite
Speaker 1: side and then he beat Terren Steele at least once.
Speaker 1: But in the run game, both Tyler Smith and Terren
Speaker 1: Steele did perform well. Struggled in the past game though
Speaker 1: in eighteen Huncherson was able to get those two sacks.
Speaker 1: But to the Cowboys credit be an adjustments or whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. After the half, you didn't really
Speaker 1: hear from Aiden Hutchinson over the course of the third
Speaker 1: and fourth quarter. So the Cowboys came out and we
Speaker 1: talked a lot about and we've talked a lot about
Speaker 1: this when it comes to the Cowboys just over the
Speaker 1: past few seasons, and what's typically been the case is
Speaker 1: their consistent inability to adapt at the half and come
Speaker 1: out consistently powerful in the third and then forced it
Speaker 1: over to the fourth quarter. We've seen them get better
Speaker 1: with that in the third quarter. We saw it again
Speaker 1: against Detroit. They really came out and just basically owned
Speaker 1: the third quarter. But then the question was can they
Speaker 1: keep this, you know, the foot to the accelerating, the
Speaker 1: accelerator to the floor in the fourth slowed down just
Speaker 1: a little bit on the back end of the third quarter,
Speaker 1: but they picked it right back up. That defense, it's
Speaker 1: it's lights out. Five takeaway. You're talking about two interceptions
Speaker 1: between Trevon Diggs and George and Lewis, you know, three
Speaker 1: more forced fumble and fumble recoveries. And I love how
Speaker 1: Diggs set the tone with his interception to start the
Speaker 1: third quarter because they needed it. They were, you know,
Speaker 1: six three, I believe at the half, everybody's like, well,
Speaker 1: what's going on. Defense is like, okay, we got you.
Speaker 1: So then the question was okay, Dak defense got you.
Speaker 1: They got you. This takeaway, what can you do with it? Oh? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: lo and behold we were we remembered the Cowboys remember
Speaker 1: that they have Ezekiel Elliott back there, and they use
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollter to just ram the ball
Speaker 1: down Jared Golf's throat pun intended and they ended up
Speaker 1: getting the touchdown on that one. The Cowboys. Biggest takeaway
Speaker 1: from me is the Cowboys offense gained three touchdowns off
Speaker 1: of three of the five takeaways from the from the
Speaker 1: few defense. That's how you win game. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: mentioned you don't like how it got there. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't think you're alone in that fact. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of Cowboys Nation that is almost Russell. Yesterday in the studio,
Speaker 1: you and I got wet, We got after it a
Speaker 1: little bit. Oh yeah, we got after a little bit.
Speaker 1: Put the hand on backwards, like over the top. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I understand your your side of things, because you're
Speaker 1: a player and you want to look at how to improve.
Speaker 1: Just because you you don't win, or just because you
Speaker 1: win the football game doesn't mean you were perfect work.
Speaker 1: Your work is not done at all. And if you
Speaker 1: play like you did yesterday against the Detroit Lions in
Speaker 1: the future, you're gonna lose games. You're gonna lose to
Speaker 1: good teams. You didn't lose yesterday because you played the Lions,
Speaker 1: but there were good things to take away. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of where I'm at. And you win the football
Speaker 1: game and you do it in a dominant way. I
Speaker 1: thought the defense played really well, really well. Yes, six points,
Speaker 1: five takeaways. I know a lot of that came in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, but when do you need to play
Speaker 1: your best football in the fourth quarter? So that's kind
Speaker 1: of where I'm at too with the defense. But I'm
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see your thoughts on how you didn't
Speaker 1: like this win. Kind of yeah, kind of. I don't
Speaker 1: want to put words in your mouth by any no,
Speaker 1: the kind. So let's look at this. What do we
Speaker 1: know that Detroit was gonna come out and do after
Speaker 1: watching the Philadelphia film be physical and run the football,
Speaker 1: Be physical and run the football. How was that working
Speaker 1: for them in the first half? Pretty dog on good?
Speaker 1: Would you say decent? Pretty dark? No, it wasn't decent.
Speaker 1: It was dog on. They didn't find the end zone though,
Speaker 1: That's my thing. Okay, so put it. So let's go
Speaker 1: back to that. Okay, let's go back to that. Now.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me lay this out there. The
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys got the w I'm just gonna say that
Speaker 1: out there, Okay. I come from the player's standpoint, and
Speaker 1: the player's standpoint is, Yes, the things that you do good,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do good. And I'm always looking for
Speaker 1: the things that we can improve upon. That's always my outlook.
Speaker 1: That's just me as a human being. That's I don't
Speaker 1: pat myself on the back of life for things that
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do. I look for the things that
Speaker 1: I can improve upon. That's me, that's me as a
Speaker 1: player human all that. I'm gonna lay that out there. Okay,
Speaker 1: now let's move forward. The Detroit Lions came out there
Speaker 1: and were more physical, especially in the first half. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: they got after they got after talking about the defense,
Speaker 1: flying in, flying in their I was pointing out to
Speaker 1: you in the studio how they were shooting at the
Speaker 1: knees of absolutely dirty, play dirty. Where else can you
Speaker 1: tackle Nowadays? You can't go high. You can't go high, right,
Speaker 1: So I mean, so that's what you do. So I
Speaker 1: relate that to the time when I was playing back
Speaker 1: in the day in Troy Paulamalu and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: They all tackle tackle like that. They run full speed,
Speaker 1: they shoot all their body weight and their shoulder at
Speaker 1: your kneecap. You're gonna either move sideways and get hit
Speaker 1: by somebody else, or you're gonna get hit by them
Speaker 1: one or the two unless you're Ezekiel Elliott and you
Speaker 1: hop over people. Okay, That's that's what's how you tackle.
Speaker 1: So they were more physical on defense. There were more
Speaker 1: physical on offense. When we go back to the first half,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like oh what the defense balled out in
Speaker 1: the second half when Detroit had to abandon their their
Speaker 1: their strategy and their game plan. Absolutely, that's what we
Speaker 1: expect our defense to do. Any team that has to
Speaker 1: drop back and pass against this defense, you're going to lose.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. If you have to
Speaker 1: drop back and throw the ball and rely on your
Speaker 1: pass to win you a ball game, it's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna work out that well. Because the Dallas Cowboys because
Speaker 1: their defensive front and their front seven is just absolutely nasty.
Speaker 1: It's a last that's it's the last resort in terms
Speaker 1: of an offensive strategy. Okay, but they're tight end. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you don't score on that heck of
Speaker 1: a play by Michael Parsons. That's why that's why you don't.
Speaker 1: But I mean, but your piece of I mean just
Speaker 1: has a play. Again, from the player's standpoint, if I'm
Speaker 1: that close to the ends, on what am I doing
Speaker 1: with the ball? You're diving? Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: So amazing played by Michael Parsons. Not taking anything away
Speaker 1: from him. He's the reason why you're in a position
Speaker 1: to be able to create a turnover on the following play.
Speaker 1: But from that tightens perspective, that should have been a touchdown. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna lay it out there. It should have
Speaker 1: been a touchdown. And I'm not saying you're wrong. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he didn't he he didn't know the lion was
Speaker 1: absolutely Hey, regardless of the line or not, if I
Speaker 1: have people in pursuit, I'm diving across it. You're not
Speaker 1: You're not wrong. Absolutely, really quickly. Before we move on, though,
Speaker 1: I went back and watched all twenty two today. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, that Michael Parsons is a couple of plays
Speaker 1: in his career that are just draw dropping. This might
Speaker 1: have been my favorite for ever, pure effort ever. This
Speaker 1: is just go back and watch it. Do yourself a favor.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying go buy NFL Plus or whatever. We'll
Speaker 1: say that on the Reds later. Go look at this.
Speaker 1: Find a way to get it. If it's on Twitter,
Speaker 1: take it. Michael Parsons is seven yards behind this tight
Speaker 1: end and has a guy in between, and he catches
Speaker 1: him within twenty yards. We were talking last week about
Speaker 1: how many strides Patrick would beat me on at forty
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, well forty, Michael would destroy anybody.
Speaker 1: That play was unbelievable up to I think Nick jen
Speaker 1: put it at almost twenty one miles. That's crazy. He's
Speaker 1: a physical specimen. But his relentless his relentlessness all right,
Speaker 1: and his willingness to go and stay and pursue at
Speaker 1: all given times, no matter if he's getting cut, no
Speaker 1: matter if he's on the backside of a play, he's
Speaker 1: going to continue to pursue. So super kudos to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the reason why his defense is doing
Speaker 1: what they're doing, right, He's one of the main reasons.
Speaker 1: So super super credit to him in terms of going
Speaker 1: out there and making that play. But in reality that
Speaker 1: dude should have scored a touchdown, sure, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: But he didn't. So you go on to the next play.
Speaker 1: What happened right next play? De Law did a heck
Speaker 1: of a job getting vertical and creating some mayhem back there.
Speaker 1: But that's not supposed to happen in human plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you go back and watch that all twenty two
Speaker 1: we talked about Mica, go look at what Tank did.
Speaker 1: Blew up three guys, now de lawd Law had a
Speaker 1: heck of a game, in my opinion, that's his best
Speaker 1: in my opinion, that's best. You you're cool. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: understood that assignment. Yes, he understood assignment. Something may leave.
Speaker 1: Kudos to d law on that play. Those two plays,
Speaker 1: in my opinion as a player, that's not supposed to happen. Right,
Speaker 1: those are errors by the players on Detroit side. Oh
Speaker 1: well right, they happened. Okay, Oh well they happened. That
Speaker 1: was the turning of the game because had those had
Speaker 1: the first play, the tight end play would have been
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Detroit Lions are able to stay in their
Speaker 1: strategy and stayed by running the ball on the ground
Speaker 1: because they didn't go to the second half. Now you
Speaker 1: have a terrible ball by year Golf on a play
Speaker 1: where Treyvon did was actually beat. Yep, he was beat.
Speaker 1: It's much like the play last year against the New
Speaker 1: York Giants where it was he was beat and it
Speaker 1: was a bad ball underthrown. He makes an amazing play.
Speaker 1: It wasn't an interception if they had they replayed it
Speaker 1: because the ball he trapped it. But still amazing play.
Speaker 1: Still amazing play. Even make it even a speculation whether
Speaker 1: or not it was a catch or not. I don't
Speaker 1: think he was beat as bad as you're intending. The
Speaker 1: receiver had the sideline, Reynolds had the sideline and golf
Speaker 1: through it thinking the sideline would be there, And then
Speaker 1: Reynolds didn't adjust to the ball well. And Treyvon Digs
Speaker 1: tracked that ball well. And I'm taking nothing away from
Speaker 1: Trayvon's ability to track the ball, make a play on
Speaker 1: the ball, and make it even you know, questionable whether
Speaker 1: or not he caught it or not. It was a
Speaker 1: terrible ball by Golf's I mean, let's not just again,
Speaker 1: Let's let's be honest there. It was a terrible ball
Speaker 1: by golf. It is what it is. Had the ball
Speaker 1: been where it was supposed to be down to have
Speaker 1: been a big play for them offensive. So when I'm
Speaker 1: watching film, I look at it for the what ELPs Now.
Speaker 1: The reality is trayvonn made a heck of a player.
Speaker 1: The reality is golf through a bad ball, and you
Speaker 1: expect golf to make bad throws from time to time.
Speaker 1: So that is the reality. But I'm always looking at it.
Speaker 1: Had had those plays turned out the way that they
Speaker 1: were intended to go, based upon what took place, this
Speaker 1: is a totally different ball game and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that Detroit is in a position where they then now
Speaker 1: have to drop back and pass the ball and allow
Speaker 1: those goons for Dallas to come do what they do,
Speaker 1: because I think that they would have stuck with the
Speaker 1: running game and been efficient like they were efficient by
Speaker 1: averaging over four and a half yards per per rush. Well,
Speaker 1: here's my problem. My problem is the bottom line is
Speaker 1: if ifs were fifth Sweethearts, we don't got drunk. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I drink water, though, and you make a point
Speaker 1: that I'd rather the ladder, you know, it goes great
Speaker 1: with the black rifle light. My thing is this, and
Speaker 1: you made several valid points, so let me let me
Speaker 1: kind of pull one out and kind of thread it
Speaker 1: out from there. You mentioned that the lions were put
Speaker 1: in a position and over the lions kind of kind
Speaker 1: themselves and run and put themselves into position be errors
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be where they kind of
Speaker 1: had to get away from what was working right. Well,
Speaker 1: that was because the cowboys forced them to make those
Speaker 1: mistakes and though and put themselves in that position. Like
Speaker 1: they didn't just say, well, I'm gonna go out and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fumble on the right. So it goes back
Speaker 1: to scheme versus personnel, who has the better personnel. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have the better personnel, and their personnel be at
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, Trevon Diggs shout off to Sam Williams. We
Speaker 1: have to mention Sam Williams, just a breakout game. Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 1: And it goes back to kind of what during so
Speaker 1: Armstrong said to me a couple of weeks or so ago.
Speaker 1: He said, everybody on the defense is to him. We
Speaker 1: saw another him yesterday, Sam Williams, Right, this Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: has kind of lived on Ben Don't Break, which I
Speaker 1: think is what Kyle was going to kind of allude to.
Speaker 1: So in allowing, not allowing, but allowing because you didn't
Speaker 1: stop it. In allowing some of those gainers on the ground,
Speaker 1: Cowboys were basically saying, Okay, you can have that. You
Speaker 1: can have that, you can have that, but show me
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do in the red zone. When it
Speaker 1: came time to get closer to the red zone. Personnel
Speaker 1: and the differentiation between elite personnel and okay versus or
Speaker 1: bad personnel, that's where it shows up. I think you
Speaker 1: can agree in the red zone any other part of
Speaker 1: the person Michael parsons that play where he chased down
Speaker 1: the tighten from back in. That's elite personnel versus okay personnel.
Speaker 1: Because if if it was elite versus elite, an elite
Speaker 1: tight end George Kittle, Travis Kelsey, they would have doved
Speaker 1: even if it was right, they would have dove do right,
Speaker 1: but they didn't. Yeah, So Michael Parson, there you go. Ye, well, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You get down on the one yard line, you gotta
Speaker 1: run the ball, and all you gotta do is punch
Speaker 1: it in. Here's the problem, okay personnel versus elite personnel,
Speaker 1: and the Marcus Lawrence goodbye to you, Goodbye to you,
Speaker 1: good bye to you. You're okay, goodbye to you. Give
Speaker 1: me the fune but I don't, don't so, and then
Speaker 1: it forced Jerry Golf into exactly what we wanted Jay
Speaker 1: Golf to be forced into. Now you have to win
Speaker 1: the game with your own absolute and we don't believe
Speaker 1: that you can. So I believe you're accurate in that
Speaker 1: the Lions were ended up being one dimensional in the
Speaker 1: dimension they didn't want to participate it, which was the
Speaker 1: passing game. But that was by design for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and Dan Quinn and then they went out and executed
Speaker 1: it and forced those mental mistakes that led to it
Speaker 1: being a completely different second half. I think with Tryvon
Speaker 1: Diggs and that was Those are excellent plays. Obviously Michael
Speaker 1: Parson stopped in then DeMarcus Lawrence, but I have to
Speaker 1: go back to a play like Treyvon Diggs. I have
Speaker 1: to go back to Sam Williams in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Those are heartbreaking plays for the Detroit Lions and quarterback
Speaker 1: in Jared Golf who has shown that once he starts
Speaker 1: to get down on himself, once he makes one mistake,
Speaker 1: one thread comes out. That's another and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the yarn ball is all over the floor and the catski.
Speaker 1: I forgot about one play. One play is a player
Speaker 1: that didn't take place that we saw from Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: against the Washington Commanders for the most part, and then
Speaker 1: it showed back up again. It's Philly and that was
Speaker 1: arrant throws by Dak Prescott and he admitted it. He
Speaker 1: admitted into postgame interviews. He said, I was overly confident
Speaker 1: in some of my throws, and they pulled him back.
Speaker 1: They pulled, they pulled the rains it was in the
Speaker 1: first half. The interception that was should have been an
Speaker 1: interception where he threw it into triple coverage. That would
Speaker 1: have changed the landscape of the game too. So that's
Speaker 1: what I think about those three plays in particular. Had
Speaker 1: those plays went down the way that most players would
Speaker 1: have taken advantage of those plays, this is a totally
Speaker 1: different game, and I don't like the way. Had the
Speaker 1: line that's been and able to stay with their game plan,
Speaker 1: I ain't have zero confidence that Dallas on the defensive
Speaker 1: side was able to stop their rushing attack because they didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't see it. So that's back to back weeks
Speaker 1: we've seen now where teams were You could call it
Speaker 1: ben but don't break all you want to, but I
Speaker 1: think these guys are running the ball on the ground.
Speaker 1: I think it was the ultimate ben but dumb break
Speaker 1: because you went all the way down to the half
Speaker 1: yard line on that drive, specifically because that drive was
Speaker 1: the worst drive defensively of the entire game. It was.
Speaker 1: I don't have the numbers in front of me. I'll
Speaker 1: find it when we come back from break, but they
Speaker 1: play it was double digit yardage. A lot of that
Speaker 1: or double digit plays. A lot of that yardage came
Speaker 1: from the ground. They ran the ball, They went back
Speaker 1: to their great game plan, and they were physical, they
Speaker 1: were up front, and they went all the way down,
Speaker 1: ran a great sprint screenplay and then it was flubbed
Speaker 1: at the end. But you also, that's the thing is
Speaker 1: that's just two phenomenal plays from two of your best players.
Speaker 1: That's the bend. But you just don't actually break it. Man,
Speaker 1: all the way up to the top up I would
Speaker 1: a little coffee stick. You went all the way up
Speaker 1: to the edge here and you didn't actually snap. And
Speaker 1: going back to Dak Prescott, and you know we would
Speaker 1: dive more so here shortly into Dak Prescott's return. Sure,
Speaker 1: but with Dek you knew that and we talked about
Speaker 1: it before the game. If he sees a particular throw,
Speaker 1: he's gonna pull the trigger. That's something that Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: may not have done. Now, you take the good with
Speaker 1: the bad. So he dodged a bullet, Yes, that dropped interception,
Speaker 1: but that was a matrix dodge but not fair. That
Speaker 1: was out. He went for neo against mister Mistranderson. But
Speaker 1: not long before that, he completes that ball in triple
Speaker 1: coverage to Ceedee Lamb for the first down, which then
Speaker 1: gets the face mask from cdee Lamb, so that the
Speaker 1: past to Lamb showed me and reminded him that hey,
Speaker 1: I could make this throw. Yeah, it's on that particular one.
Speaker 1: It didn't. It almost didn't work out. It turn out
Speaker 1: in completion could have been an interception. They completely changed
Speaker 1: the game plan after those throws. Completely changed the game
Speaker 1: plan after those kind of see that I think I
Speaker 1: think it more so that was one of the mental
Speaker 1: turning points for them to say, Okay, let's kind of
Speaker 1: scale back and get back to the run game. But
Speaker 1: what what was a hint that that was going to
Speaker 1: potentially happen was the it wasn't sailed, but his first
Speaker 1: play from scrimmage, it was a little high. It was
Speaker 1: on the back shoulder, no brown catch behind him. It
Speaker 1: is a high. My first ketchup, it's anything. First note
Speaker 1: on my all twenty two note pads says Dak misses
Speaker 1: his quote unquote get comfortable throw because that's what it was.
Speaker 1: He was wide open over the middle. He had plenty
Speaker 1: of greed, could have just put on and he put
Speaker 1: it on the back shoulder and he said he expected
Speaker 1: the tight end to be released out there as well,
Speaker 1: but the tight end got caught up in traffic. So
Speaker 1: but nonetheless, though those ones don't bother me that much
Speaker 1: because I expected that rest. I expected that rest. Like
Speaker 1: those back shoulder throws that should have been on the
Speaker 1: front shoulder, A couple of right tip could be tips
Speaker 1: and overthrows. Got to get those type of scenarios, right,
Speaker 1: I expected those because of timing right, and they speeded
Speaker 1: a game and he has to get back at justice.
Speaker 1: Those things bad decisions in terms of throwing it up there.
Speaker 1: It's a triple covers. Those are and he know he
Speaker 1: already admitted it. I can't do that. I can't do
Speaker 1: that because if that takes place, and if that tight end,
Speaker 1: just like any other human being in the world, extends
Speaker 1: the ball across the gold line, those are that that
Speaker 1: game is. It's that games flipped. Yeah, but you know
Speaker 1: what I did see from deck and and this makes
Speaker 1: sure where they were keeping the the energy right. So, yes,
Speaker 1: Dak had a little bit of a LEPrecon on the shoulder.
Speaker 1: It was a small back. It hopped up one shoulder
Speaker 1: yesterday was just it was small because I had the one,
Speaker 1: Cooper's was almost his height by the end of it all,
Speaker 1: Cooper's was, you know, about six feet tall. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know, and we obviously we gave the roses to
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush and when we'll continue to do so for
Speaker 1: what he was able to do. But all in all,
Speaker 1: for those that are saying and this what botherished mean,
Speaker 1: you guys aren't saying that. But what I saw on
Speaker 1: Twitter is Dak had a bad game. No, he didn't
Speaker 1: have a bad game. And if you go and you
Speaker 1: look at some of the advanced UH stats and some
Speaker 1: of the advanced metrics, he actually had a better game
Speaker 1: than three of the four Cooper Rush wins, I would say,
Speaker 1: because for example, his air yards, his average air yards
Speaker 1: last night was just under eleven I think I read
Speaker 1: it was ten point eight yards per per tempt. And
Speaker 1: for those that need just a bit of clarity, it
Speaker 1: is exactly what it sounds like when Dak Prescott throws
Speaker 1: the ball. What's the distance that the ball is in
Speaker 1: the air before it hits the target. So that's pre
Speaker 1: yac okay um. The most Cooper Rush had throughout his
Speaker 1: stint as starter was I think like eight point seven
Speaker 1: or something like that. So yeah, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: comparing that. No, you're not. This This is clarity for
Speaker 1: those that are saying Dak had a bay game. He
Speaker 1: threw the ball. He has seventy six percent completion rate.
Speaker 1: I mean he just has. I mean that. You can't
Speaker 1: say a quarterback how you how pass hath passer rating
Speaker 1: this season. I mean, I mean, listen, Dad didn't have
Speaker 1: a game that any of us expected him to have
Speaker 1: against the worst defense in the league. I don't think
Speaker 1: any of us did. But it doesn't matter because they
Speaker 1: ran the ball effective. So that's that's where the benefit was.
Speaker 1: These guys ran the ball for average at four point
Speaker 1: three yards per per game. TP balled out, zeke balled out,
Speaker 1: the officer line got some, got some moving up there.
Speaker 1: They Dallas had to really cut back again on their scheme.
Speaker 1: And I think that was Mike McCarthy and well maybe
Speaker 1: might maybe we'll talk about this later. Mike McCarthy really
Speaker 1: came in there, and for the first time that I
Speaker 1: physical I've seen with my own eyes, with your eyes,
Speaker 1: with my eyes, okay, and I bought it, okay, anybody
Speaker 1: to kill them more. No, for the first time, I
Speaker 1: maybe it's happened, but I'm sure it's happened before, but
Speaker 1: the first time that I have visually seen it. They
Speaker 1: want what will happen? They were about to go for
Speaker 1: it on fourth down. They lined up. He didn't like
Speaker 1: to look, He said, no, tell him out field goal.
Speaker 1: Kick the field goal. You had a chance. I gave
Speaker 1: you a chance. And the third and ones weren't going
Speaker 1: so well. Yeah, I gave you a chance. Right. I
Speaker 1: didn't like what you were doing. Nah, we're doing it
Speaker 1: my way. And after that, and after some of those
Speaker 1: errand throws by Dak, what did you see with the passes?
Speaker 1: You didn't see much down the field? No more did
Speaker 1: you You didn't see them launch this? Would you start
Speaker 1: seeing taking crossing route, shorts, lance, all that stuff underneath? Right?
Speaker 1: They said, hey, hey, let's give him some stuff that
Speaker 1: he can be confident with. Let's build him up. Let's
Speaker 1: not start taking shots down the field and rolling the
Speaker 1: dice and and testing out that dog on little LEPrecon.
Speaker 1: But you know it was perfect. We sat here last
Speaker 1: week and how many throws did you and I? But
Speaker 1: we were said the same number? How many throws did
Speaker 1: you and I? Both say? We wanted to see from Dak.
Speaker 1: No more give or take and the Cowboys will win
Speaker 1: this game. That's right there. How many did you throw?
Speaker 1: Twenty five? Cowboys won? All right there? I completely agree.
Speaker 1: Places to improve upon is certain. They're there. They've got
Speaker 1: ways to improve. They're always ways to improve, like you said,
Speaker 1: But you can't say Dak Prescott had a bad game.
Speaker 1: That's not the case. You didn't throw an interception yet
Speaker 1: he only had six incompletions and we're even getting nitpicky
Speaker 1: by talking about the six incompletions. But that's how Cowboys
Speaker 1: Nation is where we do, that's what we do. So
Speaker 1: there's ways for him to improve. There's ways for him
Speaker 1: to play better that will come hopefully down the line.
Speaker 1: But when we come back, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit more of what you were just talking
Speaker 1: about their play calling and the balance of this offense.
Speaker 1: Did we finally see a blue print in a good
Speaker 1: way on how to get this offense going consistently down
Speaker 1: the stretch? And then in a little bit we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about that defense and how
Speaker 1: they were balling out yesterday. When we come back with
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Speaker 1: the way, the Cowboys yesterday recorded five takeaways in the
Speaker 1: second half, second half, two quarters. They had five takeaways.
Speaker 1: The last time the Cowboys had five takeaways in a
Speaker 1: single half. If you're a Cowboys fan, you might know
Speaker 1: this super Bowl against Buffalo in nineteen that was the
Speaker 1: last time nineteen ninety three. You do not want to know.
Speaker 1: My parents weren't even married yet. Let's say that I don't.
Speaker 1: They may not have even met that you were stealing
Speaker 1: in your faja. Yeah, maybe I don't even think I
Speaker 1: was there yet, but yeah, back against the twinkling Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills in Super Bowl in ninety three. By the way,
Speaker 1: the drive that ended with that Williams fumble. Our friend
Speaker 1: Mario did the work for me on Twitter, and he's
Speaker 1: tagged us in it twelve plays, seventy nine yards got
Speaker 1: him all the way down inside the one yard line
Speaker 1: on Out of those twelve plays, eight of them were
Speaker 1: rushing attempts with a long of twenty fifty five total
Speaker 1: yards on the ground, and they had three third down conversions.
Speaker 1: Two of them were thirteen and of nineteen yards. So
Speaker 1: shout out to Mario for doing the extra work there
Speaker 1: and getting that information to us, because that was the
Speaker 1: drive that was the ultimate game change. It was a
Speaker 1: great drive for them. He could whoever won that drive
Speaker 1: had a really good shot to win that football games.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys won that drives. They did wait because
Speaker 1: they had the great play for Michael Parsons to stop, yeah,
Speaker 1: to stop at the one yard line, and then d
Speaker 1: All right after that with the three plays are taking
Speaker 1: on three guys at the goal line to force the fumble.
Speaker 1: So really that was the game changer. But I want
Speaker 1: to go back to the play calling because that was
Speaker 1: a huge storyline going into it. Where you got It's
Speaker 1: okay with the play calling throughout the ball game, I
Speaker 1: thought there was a lot left on the table, especially
Speaker 1: on third downs. Third downs were really tough on a
Speaker 1: couple of occasions, mostly yes, but if you go into
Speaker 1: the micro there were most certainly instances where I would
Speaker 1: have preferred to see something different. For example, one of
Speaker 1: the third and ones where it was Ezekiel Elliott going
Speaker 1: out to the edge, and I tweeted this at the time.
Speaker 1: My preferences. If you're gonna make that play, if that's
Speaker 1: going to be the play call, then that needs to
Speaker 1: be Tony Polled in space, not Ezekiel Elliott. And if
Speaker 1: it is going to be Ezekiel Elliott taking that hand off,
Speaker 1: then it needs to be straight up the gut and
Speaker 1: punch them in the mouth and challenge them to stop
Speaker 1: you there. That's just for me, It's just a better
Speaker 1: personnel fit, knowing who's better in space. And then we
Speaker 1: saw another third and one reverse. Yeah, yeah, cowboys got cute.
Speaker 1: Cowboys got cute on that. And it was a game
Speaker 1: that we knew would be physical because the lines would
Speaker 1: try to out physical that the cowboy, So the Cowboys
Speaker 1: needed to out physical the Lions as opposed to trying
Speaker 1: to pull out finesse. After you've seen some of these
Speaker 1: power runs work with Ezekiel Elliott, and you've seen the
Speaker 1: tandem between he and Tony Pollard, be effective and then
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, let's let's get fancy. You don't always
Speaker 1: have to break out the doilies for visitors, Okay, Sometimes
Speaker 1: you just need to give them the grilled cheese sandwich
Speaker 1: and tell them to shove it down the throat. So
Speaker 1: those two third and ones, over the course of the
Speaker 1: first half, they helped the Lions gain confidence, and they
Speaker 1: helped the Lions feel like, hey, we can we can
Speaker 1: walk away with this wind. And ultimately that's what made
Speaker 1: it more difficult for the Cowboys in the first half.
Speaker 1: And then it took after halftime for them to really
Speaker 1: start to slapping the Lions around, and then you start
Speaker 1: the Lions start to begin to unravel on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. But yeah, in the first half, particularly
Speaker 1: those first two third and ones, that left, like you said,
Speaker 1: some meat on the bone, as my mother would tell
Speaker 1: my my children, her grandchildren. As you know, I think
Speaker 1: coach McCarthy spanked Killing Moore's pal pal. I was wondering
Speaker 1: where that was going. I think that Killing Moore was
Speaker 1: trying to get cute, and Killer Moore was trying to
Speaker 1: take some shots that Coach McCarthy was uncomfortable with. And
Speaker 1: I think he spanked his pow pal. I think he got.
Speaker 1: I think he got sent to the to the principal's
Speaker 1: office a little bit. And I believe that coach McCarthy
Speaker 1: really stepped up. Yeah, the ruler brou Yeah, that could
Speaker 1: the ones that make you take your cheeks and you
Speaker 1: know what I'm say so, I think that killing Moore
Speaker 1: was like, oh, my guy's back, let's do this, let's
Speaker 1: do this. Let's and Coach McCarthy was like, nah, chill out.
Speaker 1: Well they they he gave him an opportunity on the
Speaker 1: fourth team. Did he said him out there and it
Speaker 1: would happen. See what happens. He's stepped four, he said,
Speaker 1: and burning. Nah, I'm burning time out and burn. I
Speaker 1: don't like it sent out my re unit. You want
Speaker 1: to come to the press conference with me today and
Speaker 1: ask Kellen about it. If you got his poppa s banked.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have phrased it that way,
Speaker 1: I would. That's why I'm not in that room though.
Speaker 1: That's why they don't give you that. I'm not calling
Speaker 1: another man delicious, and I'm not asking another man if
Speaker 1: you got that's such an entertainer, come off centric the entertainment.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's I think it kind of
Speaker 1: harkens back to what Mike McCarthy said after the Week
Speaker 1: one loss against Tampa Bay, and I think McCarthy has
Speaker 1: been held bent on making sure that line is told
Speaker 1: in that um. The Cowboys offense needs to be quote
Speaker 1: unquote smarter in certain situations. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: situation where it's fourth and one and he had already
Speaker 1: seen Mike McCarthy did, had already seen a couple of
Speaker 1: questionable play calls on third and one, and then he
Speaker 1: saw the lineup or they set up the scheme and
Speaker 1: the personnel, and he was like, you know what, it's
Speaker 1: not even worth the risk. I'll burn this time out.
Speaker 1: I'll eat it now. Truthfully, you could have just tried
Speaker 1: to draw him off sides, like sent the call in
Speaker 1: to Dax's helm and said, just try to draw up
Speaker 1: my off side because you're already on the field, and
Speaker 1: just take the delay a game because it's five yards.
Speaker 1: Isn't going to back up break this field goal, and
Speaker 1: you could have kept the time out. The one thing
Speaker 1: I thought about that too, But going back and looking
Speaker 1: at it, they were inside the they were inside the ten,
Speaker 1: weren't they. I mean they were so even then it's
Speaker 1: half the distance, so I don't think an offside's penalty
Speaker 1: would have given them the first time. So I think
Speaker 1: it was kind of a mood point there too. But
Speaker 1: but to Isaiah's point, McCarthy looked at it and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, yeah, we gotta be smarter, and these
Speaker 1: are the situations that I was talking about. So yeah, no,
Speaker 1: so be it some pow pow spankage or a simple veto,
Speaker 1: it came down from McCarthy and then the Cowboys went
Speaker 1: a hand took that field goal and they got the points,
Speaker 1: and at that point it was you know, it was
Speaker 1: needed because the offense just could not punch it into
Speaker 1: the end zone at that point. Yeah, they were at
Speaker 1: the three yard line and it was third and two,
Speaker 1: so even if they get half the distance, it's only
Speaker 1: a yard and a half, so it would have been
Speaker 1: fourth and inches even then. So yeah, probably not just
Speaker 1: that it would have saved you the time, It would
Speaker 1: have saved you something. Yeah. Yeah, the time out specifically
Speaker 1: would have been a way. It's kind of crazy the
Speaker 1: comparison between these statistics. You know, I'm not a big
Speaker 1: stats guy, but because it doesn't tell the entire story.
Speaker 1: It adds value to your to your points. It's just
Speaker 1: part of the science yet. But you look at it.
Speaker 1: First downs Detroit had eighteen, Dallas had twenty one. They
Speaker 1: had six. Detroit had six rushing UH first downs, Dallas
Speaker 1: had eight. Detroit had eleven first downs by passing, Dallas
Speaker 1: had ten. Dallas had three pit first downs by penalty,
Speaker 1: Detroit had one. Third downs. They were both thirty three
Speaker 1: percent on third down. UM. The difference is Detroit got
Speaker 1: to the red zone once Dallas went there four times,
Speaker 1: it was seventy five percent. Um. You know, you look
Speaker 1: at their their total yardage was very similar. You got
Speaker 1: third three twelve by Detroit, three thirty by Dallas. You
Speaker 1: got passing attempts twenty and twenty. They went twenty one
Speaker 1: for twenty six. Dallas went nineteen for twenty five. UM.
Speaker 1: Miss's just crazy. You just look across the board man. Statistically, penalties,
Speaker 1: Lions had eight for fifty nine, Dallas had seven for
Speaker 1: fifty five. It really comes down just that turnover margin
Speaker 1: right there in that second half, right you start looking
Speaker 1: at that. Really the fourth quarter, they had four fumbles,
Speaker 1: three of them got lost. Dallas had two fumbles, one
Speaker 1: of them got lost. This is the exact reason that
Speaker 1: the reason they defeated the Lions, takeaway margin and lost
Speaker 1: time posession was the reason they lost to the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Takeaway margin was in the eagles favor. This is how
Speaker 1: you win games and then the field you take the
Speaker 1: ball away, but more importantly, you capitalize off of that.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest thing. You have to capitalize off of
Speaker 1: those opportunities. There were missed opportunities for the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: the Eagles game just as much as they were missed
Speaker 1: opportunities for the Lions in this game. Moving forward, do
Speaker 1: you do you feel that's the best way I could
Speaker 1: say this? Do you want to break here? Let's come back? Okay,
Speaker 1: you want to come back to it? Whatever Isaiah's thinking,
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna tease heading into this final final
Speaker 1: break when we come back with more talking Cowboys. Right
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Speaker 1: all right, Isaiah, you had a question you wanted to pose.
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about it in the break. Yeah you
Speaker 1: got Yeah, I got it. So the game obviously turned
Speaker 1: right there in the fourth quarter, But I just want
Speaker 1: I didn't want to know Cowboys Nation, and we could
Speaker 1: talk about it tomorrow when everybody starts calling in. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like there should have been a greater margin
Speaker 1: of victory? Being that Dallas undoubtedly he has a greater
Speaker 1: disparity in talent level. Dallas has far more talent offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively than Detroit does, far more tenured coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like there should have been a man
Speaker 1: we caught our predictions. I know my prediction was was
Speaker 1: a greater margin of victory? Mine? It was thirty three
Speaker 1: or thirty two to thirteen, So what is that? So?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, okay, you're you're a closer, You're
Speaker 1: a close everybody. Yeah, so his was seventeen. They won
Speaker 1: by eighteen. Yeah, I had to. I had them destroying
Speaker 1: these guys. So, I mean, I just asked that question
Speaker 1: because we all said that Dallas was gonna win. We
Speaker 1: all felt like they were gonna win by a good margin.
Speaker 1: But do you feel like this is like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just feel like you're playing like you're you're you're
Speaker 1: in freaking au basketball, You're playing against the rec league,
Speaker 1: and I just felt like you should have beat them
Speaker 1: more handily, you know what I mean. So to answer
Speaker 1: your question, yes, they should have. Um the reason they
Speaker 1: didn't was because the offense couldn't get going in the
Speaker 1: first half. Offense didn't get going into the second half,
Speaker 1: which was you know, to complement what the defense was
Speaker 1: doing with the takeaway with the takeaways. So yes, they
Speaker 1: should have absolutely just walked the dog against the Detroit
Speaker 1: lines yesterday. That is true, And that goes to your
Speaker 1: overarching point as far as improvements need to be made, absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're coming out of week seven, still still
Speaker 1: a lot of football to be played. The improvements need
Speaker 1: to be made, but there's a lot of time to
Speaker 1: continue to make those improvements. My thing is, it's never
Speaker 1: apologized for a win because whatever energy you choose to have,
Speaker 1: and I say you, but I'm speaking generally to the
Speaker 1: listeners as well. Whatever energy you choose to have about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, make sure you keep that energy with other teams. Example,
Speaker 1: the New York Giants was there were one yard away
Speaker 1: from losing to the Jacksonville Jaguars. For those that didn't
Speaker 1: see the end of that game, go watch the end
Speaker 1: of that game. And Trevor Lawrence almost did it. I
Speaker 1: felt like Tennessee Rams super Bowl almost did it. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The Giants Now, as they said at
Speaker 1: six and one, everybody's like, oh, the Giants are real,
Speaker 1: and Brian Dayball is wonderful, wonderful. Of their six wins,
Speaker 1: none of their victories are greater than eight points, and
Speaker 1: most of their victories are Look at this six, four, five, eight,
Speaker 1: three and one. Go and look at the Philadelphia Eagles, right,
Speaker 1: they're undefeated six and oh, but they've only broken the
Speaker 1: thirty point margin once in their victories. And their victories
Speaker 1: look almost similar to the Giants. A little bit of
Speaker 1: a disparency discrepancy there as far as the point differential,
Speaker 1: but they're not blowing teams out either. So but you
Speaker 1: hear the Eagles, they're dominant, they're the best team in
Speaker 1: the NFC. You hear the Giants, Oh my god, they're
Speaker 1: six and one, they're the real deal. But then it
Speaker 1: comes to the Cowboys, and the Cowboys beat the Lions
Speaker 1: by a sizable margin. They didn't blow them out, but
Speaker 1: a sizable margin. And we're having the conversation of think
Speaker 1: gets don't apologize for the winning. If we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: the energy, if we're gonna say the Giants are this
Speaker 1: and the Eagles are this, and we're not saying overlook
Speaker 1: the improvements that need to be made by the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and the mistakes that were made that shouldn't have been
Speaker 1: made in the thirty one calls and the drops by
Speaker 1: Noah Brown and a couple of passes from see. I
Speaker 1: think the question handled business, and I think the question
Speaker 1: is posed. I mean, nobody's questioned. Nobody's apologizing for the win.
Speaker 1: You got the do say you no? No? No? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Mean okay, yeah there. I can't speak for everybody, don't.
Speaker 1: I am not apologizing. I am happy that I'm pleased
Speaker 1: Dallas one. Okay, I'm pleased that Dallas Cowboys one. I'm
Speaker 1: not pleased how they won. Right As as a competitor,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they that they handled Detroit Lions away,
Speaker 1: in which they should have, right, but ultimately you got
Speaker 1: the W. So as a coach, you walk away. Okay,
Speaker 1: yeah we won, but anyone like that, right, I just
Speaker 1: shake my hand like we got THEB We're supposed to
Speaker 1: win that game. But I don't like how we did it.
Speaker 1: I don't like how we went about our business. Okay,
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, that's how I want us to go about
Speaker 1: our business. But that's not the game plan they came
Speaker 1: in with. We got some things, we got a tidy up. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's my outlook on it. However, I lost my dog
Speaker 1: on training time the Dallas I lost my training I
Speaker 1: can get you back, I think, because you go back
Speaker 1: to last year. That's why. Yes, that's what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about last year. The offense, we're a top of the league. Yep.
Speaker 1: What do we lose offensively? Cooper Amari Cooper. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: lost Coop, but you have CD Lamb, Cedric Wilson. Okay,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson's returning kicks. Well, that's because Dolphins just aren't
Speaker 1: using him. That's not because but I'm but I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: what did you what did you lose that impact. That's
Speaker 1: going to impact taken from first yes, bottom five? Yes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's why I think the expectation because you didn't
Speaker 1: lose anything. You lost you lost Coop. Yeah, that you
Speaker 1: lost a lot in Coop. I don't agree with that law.
Speaker 1: But you lost a lot of Coop. But everybody has
Speaker 1: everybody has a CD. They have a CD, right, they
Speaker 1: have a CD. Okay, So if you're saying that CD
Speaker 1: is your guy, he's your replacement for Coop, he's read
Speaker 1: some have the front office says the CD is our
Speaker 1: guy and that we don't need Coop hasn't shown up yet,
Speaker 1: hasn't shown up yet in that regard, right. So that's
Speaker 1: why I think people are asking, at least why I'm
Speaker 1: asking the question, how do you go from the top
Speaker 1: of the league to the bottom of the league offensively
Speaker 1: and you didn't lose a whole lot. Well, I'll say this,
Speaker 1: I think if Dak Prescott, I think if Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: doesn't get injured in week one, by now you're looking
Speaker 1: at him prolific. That's fair. That's what I can see that.
Speaker 1: I could certainly see that all right time. Now for
Speaker 1: helmet stickers, we do it every time the Cowboys get
Speaker 1: to win. This the fifth time this season that we've
Speaker 1: got helmet stickers, and it's the first time we're doing
Speaker 1: it without our guy Rob P. Phillips, which is unfortunate.
Speaker 1: You're gonna represent Rob well, Isaiah who you got. These
Speaker 1: are helmet stickers, are players of the game for the win.
Speaker 1: Over the lines. You see this little gentleman right here
Speaker 1: righting his bicycle. Okay, his bicycles nice too, and big
Speaker 1: wheels on it. Okay. You see that backpack right there, backpack, backpack. Okay,
Speaker 1: y'all see right there, This right here is DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: D Law got on his bike and said, hey, fellas,
Speaker 1: hop in my backpack. I'm gonna cure you guys to
Speaker 1: the victory. He made a heck of a stop right
Speaker 1: there on the goal line. Had it not been for that,
Speaker 1: I think this is a totally different game. So d Law,
Speaker 1: way to play big dog m. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it, very nicely done, d Law. We want the sticker, No,
Speaker 1: I'll let you go next. I like yours. Next, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go with rookie second round pick Sam Williams. Sam,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a pair. No, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to give you a pair
Speaker 1: of Sam, Well, I'm gonna give you a pair because
Speaker 1: yesterday you gave the Cowboys a pair of sacks. You
Speaker 1: gave the Cowboys a multi sackers game, and you had
Speaker 1: the hat trick with the strip fumble, the strip sack fumble.
Speaker 1: Sam Williams just absolutely balled out yesterday. So he gets
Speaker 1: the pair because he gave the Cowboys a pair. And
Speaker 1: very fun stat here, Sam Williams and I tweeted this
Speaker 1: out yesterday, only the fourth Cowboys rookie since nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: two to record two sacks and a force fumble in
Speaker 1: the game. Here are the other three. Michael Parsons, Victor Butler,
Speaker 1: go look mom if you don't, and DeMarcus Ware. How's
Speaker 1: that for company? Is a pretty good day. So a
Speaker 1: pair for the pair of Sam Williams. I like it.
Speaker 1: So you guys both picked defensive players. This was a
Speaker 1: defensive football game. You picked the Marcus Lawrence, you picked
Speaker 1: Sam Williams. Sam Williams is in company with Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: in one of those areas. That's why I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Michael Parsons because he showed it's not just that
Speaker 1: one's company. He continues to play well. And I picked
Speaker 1: out this little apple. It's a realistic apple. You know
Speaker 1: why apples fall from trees, right, they fall from trees.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what it looked like. Whenever you're
Speaker 1: looking at the ALL twenty two and Michael Parsons is
Speaker 1: falling off of the tree, He's falling with the gravity
Speaker 1: to catch right at the end zone, bring him right down.
Speaker 1: I like it because how about that it came in
Speaker 1: and apple bunked right on the head, stopped them at
Speaker 1: the one yard line. And then you turn around and
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is my helmet. All defensive players, it was
Speaker 1: a defensive football game, was will and there were some
Speaker 1: offensive players that probably could earn that, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: Think it's I think it's maybe next week, not today.
Speaker 1: But it's time to drop the nicknames. Maybe we do
Speaker 1: start getting into there. Maybe we do that. This we
Speaker 1: maybe we do. There's a whole week of preparation to
Speaker 1: be had heading into that matchup with the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: It's a string of NFC North matchups, one down, three
Speaker 1: to go in that division to try and run the table.
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